Pelobatoidea

The European Spadefoot Toad, scientifically Pelobatoidea and formerly Pelobatidae are a fairly heimlich super familiar Frog - Anura, which represents a rather weird figure, but a froschähnliche's, pointed visual field is not like that. Pathogenesis is, inter alias, between the sunken one and "higher Frogs", Toads (family), frogs, true frogs (Family), on the other insecure and are therefore - among other things by characteristics of bone construction - in the suborder Mesobatrachia.

There are approximately 137 Pelobatoidea worldwide with 15 species in Genus and four Familiar. The distribution covers Europe, North Africa and West Asia (Family Pelobatidae), Southeast Asia (family Megophryidae) and North America (family Scaphiopodidae).

It is, inter alia, in daylight vertically slotted pupil. The tongue is thick, circular and almost entirely with the floor of the mouth verwachsen. When pairing the females, males in the lumbar region, so just before the hind legs umklammert ( inguinal Amplexus).

Taxonomy to the genus level

(In addition, otherwise individual species listed)

* Family Megophryidae Bonaparte, 1850 - Asia tables European Spadefoot Toad
** Generic"Atympanophrys"Tian and Hu, 1983 (2 species)
** Generic"Brachytarsophrys"Tian and Hu, 1983 (5 species)
** Generic"Leptobrachella"Smith, 1925 (7 species)
** Generic"Leptobrachium"Tschudi, 1838 (12 species)
** Generic"Leptolalax"Dubois, 1980 (18 species)
** Generic"Megophrys"Kuhl & Hasselt, 1822 - tip frogs (6 species)
*** Tip"Megophrys nasuta"Schlegel, 1858 - tip frog
** Generic"Ophryophryne"Boulenger, 1903 (4 species)
** Generic"Oreolalax"Myers & Leviton, 1962 (17 species)
** Generic"Scutiger"Theobald, 1868 (18 species)
** Generic"Vibrissaphora"Liu, 1945 (5 species)
** Generic"Xenophrys"Günther, 1864 (29 species)
* Family Pelobatidae Bonaparte, 1850 - European spadefoot toad
** Generic"Pelo Bates"Wagler, 1830 - European spadefoot toad (4 species)
*** Tip"Pelo Bates cultripes"(Cuvier, 1829) - Knives foot
*** Tip"Pelo fuscus"(Laurenti, 1768) - Common Spadefoot
* Family Pelodytidae Bonaparte, 1850 - mud divers
** Generic"parsley frogs"Bonaparte, 1838 - mud divers (3 types)
*** Tip"parsley frogs punctatus"(Daudin, 1802) - Western mud divers
* Family Scaphiopodidae Cope, 1865 - American spadefoot toads
** Generic"Scaphiopus"Holbrook, 1836 (3 types)
*** Tip"Scaphiopus couchii"Baird, 1854 - Southern shovel foot
** Generic"Spea"Cope, 1866 (4 species)
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ee also

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Further Reading

* Herre, W. (1950): On the problem of taxonomy of Anuren. Zool. Scoreboard""'164 ', p. 394-400.
* Kuhn, O. (1961): The families of the recent and fossil amphibians and reptiles, 79 pp publishing house Meisenhelder Bach KG Bamberg.